Well I've gone and fucked myself. Don't try this at home, it hurts like hell!

By way of explanation, I've been working off and on, on my Master's Thesis for like 6 years now. If I'd elected to stay in school and get it done when I got done with all my classes back in 96, I'd probably be long done by now. But because I bowed to the pressure of paying off bills and wanting to actually eat and be able to put gas in my car, I opted instead to go out and work full time again. Bad move. In the interim, my advisor retired which was cool because he was still helping me out. Now I find out he moved to Schenectady, NY in May even though he was still advising 8 of us on our theses (rhymes with feces). So now, I've had to ask another prof to be my advisor, one I don't even know I might add, and even if he agrees, he may want me to change the direction of my thesis. That would not be a good thing considering how much research I've done already.

The good thing is, the Communication Department Chair who I do know has agreed to be on my committee.And she wants me to do everything I can to finish and defend my thesis in the Spring. That would be fine with me. Anything to get it over with.

The bad part is, I"ll have to file an extension and chase the paperwork all over for a day or two. Then I'll have to agree to pay for 4 credit hours in the Spring since I've not kept up on registering for this Fall.

Always finish when you are in school if you can. It almost never works out this way.